In Defence of Learning: The Plight, Persecution, and Placement of Academic Refugees, 1933-1980s

Shula Marks (Ed.), Paul Weindling (Ed.), Laura Wintour (Ed.), David Zimmerman, William Lanouette, Gustav Born, Georgina Ferry, Paul Broda, Lewis Elton, Gerald Kreft, Tibor Frank, Susan Cohen, E. Stina Lyon, Christian Fleck, Antoon de Baets, Marina Yu. Sorokina, Antonin Kostlan, Sona Strbanova, Alan Phillips.

ISBN 10: 0197264816 / ISBN 13: 9780197264812

Published by British Academy, 2011

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2011 British Academy hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition.

Contents:

1 'Protests Butter No Parsnips': Lord Beveridge and the Rescue of Refugee Academics from Europe, 1933-1938 by David Zimmerman;
2 A Narrow Margin of Hope: Leo Szilard in the Founding Days of CARA by William Lanouette;
3 From Refugee Assistance to Freedom of Learning: the Strategic Vision of A. V. Hill, 1933-1964 by Paul Weindling;
4 Refugee Scientists in a New Environment by Gustav Born;
5 Max Perutz and the SPSL by Georgina Ferry;
6 Esther Simpson: A Correspondence by Paul Broda;
7 Eva and Esther by Lewis Elton;
8 'Dedicated to Represent the True Spirit of the German Nation in the World': Philipp Schwartz (1894-1977), Founder of the Notgemeinschaft by Gerald Kreft;
9 Organized Rescue Operations in Europe and the United States, 1933-1945 by Tibor Frank;
10 In Defence of Academic Women Refugees: The British Federation of University Women by Susan Cohen;
11 Karl Mannheim and Viola Klein: Refugee Sociologists in Search of Social Democratic Practice by E. Stina Lyon;
12 Austrian Refugee Social Scientists by Christian Fleck;
13 Plutarch's Thesis: The Contribution of Refugee Historians to Historical Writing, 1945-2010 by Antoon de Baets;
14 Within Two Tyrannies: The Soviet Academic Refugees of the Second World War by Marina Yu. Sorokina;
15 Czech Scholars in Exile, 1948-1989 by Antonin Kostlan & Sona Strbanova;
16 'Bending the rules': South African Refugees in the UK, 1960-1980 by Shula Marks;
17 Refugee Academics from Chile: WUS-SPSL Collaboration by Alan Phillips.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Defence of Learning: The Plight, Persecution, and Placement of Academic Refugees, 1933-1980s
• Publisher: British Academy
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0197264816
• ISBN 13: 9780197264812
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Established in the 1930s to rescue scientists and scholars from Nazi Europe, the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL, founded in 1933 as the Academic Assistance Council and now known as the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics) has had an illustrious career. No fewer than eighteen of its early grantees became Nobel Laureates and 120 were elected Fellows of the British Academy and Royal Society in the UK. While a good deal has been written on the SPSL in the 1930s and 1940s, and especially on the achievements of the outstanding scientists rescued, much less attention has been devoted to the scholars who contributed to the social sciences and humanities, and there has been virtually no research on the Society after the Second World War. The archive-based essays in this volume, written to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the organisation, are the first to attempt to fill this gap. The essays include revisionist accounts of the founder of the SPSL and some of its early grantees. For the first time, the story examines its relationship with associates and allies, the experiences of women academics and those of the post- war academic refugees from Communist Europe, apartheid South Africa and Pinochet's Chile. In addition to scholarly contributions, the volume includes moving essays by the children of early grantees. At a time of increasing international concern with refugees and immigration, it is a timely reminder of the enormous contribution generations of academic refugees have made - and continue to make - to learning the world over.

About the Author

Professor Shula Marks: Born in Cape Town, Shula Marks was formerly Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, and is now Emeritus Professor of Southern African History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London and Honorary Professor in the History Department at the University of Cape Town. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Cape Town and Natal. She has lectured and written widely on South African history, including most recently chapters in the New Cambridge History of South Africa, vol. 2 (forthcoming), and has supervised some fifty doctoral students. She is currently researching a book on the history of social medicine. She was Chair of the Society for the Protection and Learning/Council for Assisting Refugee Academics and is still a member of CARA's Council.